Word: portions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they can live with themselves even in jail. Is it better to be on the outside and live a lie than to be on the inside and live with yourselves? They have made a choice. Others have made it in the past. They will spend their lives-or a portion of them-in a federal penitentiary or go underground and live their lives in perpetual fear of apprehension. . . They will always be able to say to themselves I hope I was a man or I was a woman, and that I loved my brothers and sisters...
Under the CUE plan, "a student may graduate after three years by taking four term courses every term and an intensive study each January, giving him the necessary 27 term courses. The student may, however, choose to remain in the College for a fourth year or a portion thereof...
...Women's Organization has read the text of Dean F. Skiddy von Stade's letter to former Radcliffe Dean of Admissions David K. Smith. We are dismayed at the views he expressed, but we are not surprised. We have been trying to convince the Harvard community that a significant portion of the Harvard Administration shares Dean von Stade's view of educated women. That is to say, that we are "dull" and incapable of significant contributions to scholarship or to society, and that motherhood and intellectual functioning are mutually exclusive. On the basis of these beliefs the administration seems...
...judge would laugh at you." Now many courts have made such suits easier. In several states, lawyers are allowed to cite medical textbooks as expert testimony in some malpractice cases. Under the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur (the thing speaks for itself), a plaintiff proves a major portion of his case when he shows that his injuries would not normally have occurred without negligence. In turn, the defendant is forced to produce evidence that he was not negligent. Doctors' changing attitudes have also helped aggrieved patients. Though many physicians still fear ostracism or cancellation of their own malpractice insurance...
...A.M.A. or the Government to underwrite a reinsurance pool for physicians who cannot obtain malpractice insurance from other carriers. Some suggest that the patient carry surgical-accident insurance similar to that now available to airline passengers. Almost all attack the contingent-fee system under which lawyers receive a portion, usually one-third, of any award made to the patient...